Species Melobasis interstitialis Blackburn, 1901

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• Melobasis interstitialis Blackburn, T. 1901. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 25: 99-131 [130].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex unknown, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1923. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis (Fam. Buprestidae, Order Coleoptera), with notes on allied genera. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1923(1–2): 64–105, pls I,II [82]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, herbivore, volant.

Larva: wood-borer.

 

General References

Blackburn, T. 1890. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part VIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 121-160 [146] (costata)

Carter, H.J. 1929. A check list of the Australian Buprestidae. With tables and keys to sub-families, tribes, and genera (by A. Théry). The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 265-304 [Date published 24 Mar 1929] [285]

Carter, H.J. 1931. Checklist of the Australian Buprestidae. Corrigenda, Addenda and Synonyms omitted. The Australian Zoologist 6: 107-108 [108]

Lea, A.M. 1912. The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B.A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: v-xl [xxix]

Levey, B. 2018. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Melobasis Laporte & Gory 1837 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Part 2 (Revision of the nervosa species group). Zootaxa 4528(1): 1-79 [28, Figs 6, 45–46, 104–105, 150, 182, 190, 204–206]

Obenberger, J. 1930. Buprestidae 2. pp. 213-568 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 111. [432]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2019	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	30-Dec-2018	MODIFIED
28-Jan-2014	BUPRESTIDAE Leach, 1815	06-May-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
10-Oct-2012		10-Oct-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)